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After Henry Hudson discoverd Manhattan (1609), he quickly went to sea again, already the next year he had collected enough money to find the northwestpassage north of America. In August 1610 Hudson and his crew of 22 men sailed the ship Discovery on what later would be called Hudson Bay. Month after Month they tried to go past the large ice, but the ice eventually stopped them. They soon had eaten all their food and was froced to go ashore and try to live on what the nature offerd them, but they very soon got frostbites. But now the crew had have enough, one morning they made mutiny and placed Hudson i a rowboat toghter whit his son John and those of the crew that where sick or lojal to Hudson. The little rowboat managed to follow Discovery for a while but soon it dissaperd, and whitout food or water on a icesea, Henry Hudson wanished from history. When Discovery returned to London, the crew where put on trial for muteni and murder, but was freed of all charges. They claimed that Hudson had found the northwestpassage and that they knew about it, and the English goverment didn´t wan´t to loose this information.
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